Storytelling for Lawyers
“Backstory: Grading Law School Examinations As I revise this manuscript, I am simultaneously grading blue-book examinations and ExamSoft examinations in a large doctrinal criminal law class. The process is labor intensive and often painful. One reason why grading examinations is so difficult is the importance of grades to the students. Law school examinations and law school grades provide the psychic undercurrent of law school. First-year law school grades, typically based on one end-of-semester examination, often shape law school identities and self-perceptions by determining law school honors, including law review membership. This can have long-term effects on a student’s confidence, ability to create a professional persona, and perception of self-worth. Increasingly, first-year law school grades have profound practical significance as well: first-year grades affect directly how students will fare in an increasingly competitive employment market. First-year students have a great deal... riding on their examination performance, and they know it, and their professors do, too.MoreLess
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